General news

March 9, 2018, release from the Missouri Department of Economic Development. Contact: Maggie Kost, DED, 573-522-5058 | maggie.kost@ded.mo.gov Marston, MO – Delaware-based Magnitude 7 Metals announced plans today to create more than 450 jobs and to reopen an aluminum smelter in Marston, Missouri. “After the closure of the aluminum smelter in Marston, hundreds of people worked ...

MARYVILLE, Missouri – Tenaska, one of the leading independent power producers in the United States, has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. (Associated) with a capacity of approximately 236 megawatts (MW) of renewable power from a wind project in northwest Missouri. The Tenaska Clear Creek Energy Center project, currently ...

Associated Electric Cooperative will receive more than $45,000 through the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation to develop habitat at its Thomas Hill Energy Center for the monarch butterfly – which has experienced a 90 percent decline in the last 20 years. The Missouri foundation received one of 23 new grants totaling $3.77 million from the National Fish and Wildlife F ...

Note: The following news release was issued April 20 by National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. CLIFTON HILL, Mo.—Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt visited Missouri to discuss the agency’s “Back to the Basics” regulatory approach and learn more about the role electric cooperatives play in powering the nation’s economy. “We can do both: growth ...